In her framing talk Silja Graupe applies Asian Perspectives on concepts of enabling innovation, thus cherishing Chaos. Chaos acts as the context of a spontaneous encounter of “swift” and “sudden”, where they both assume meaning. But we are warned by this old asian saying: We cannot see the true face of mount Lu because we are standing on top of it. Thus prepared we move from space to BA and – as in Japan – we change slippers for each different room we go to.

Under the heading ENABLE! the LIFT@austria conference is looking at enabling structures for game-changing innovations. Markus Peschl from the University of Vienna in his framing talk points towards the metaphysics of innovation: Potentia – Actus – Emerge. Innovation happens when there is something latent which wants to break forth. For this to take place we have to give up control, nourish our love for details and awareness of weak signals and – most hard in today’s business environments – have to be able to wait.

Stefan Wiltschnig reminds us that we can 0nly act in a genuine way if we are clear about our intentions. Based on this we should consider adopting the “doing less”-attitude rooted in Chinese culture and – following C. G. Jung in this – appreciate the shadow of our movement.

Michael Bauwens of P2P Foundation points to the the emerging models dealing with the ciritical balance between giving away and making money. His Prezi “Everything open and free” shares the current landscape of change for Openess.